Patrick Chevalier Curriculum Vitea

Work Experience

Design, Creation and Layout for the Web

Talented artist capable in creating with traditional mediums and outside the digital context but able to establish meaningful links between them.

15 years’ experience creating for web and print production capable of quickly editing graphic resources and media files for digital and web presentations.

Creative interactive media designer capable of working with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and other desktop publishing and design suites and capable of creating captivating and seductive design and ergonomic sites, while respecting best practice rules and ergonomic conventions.

Attentive photographer capable of capturing and editing professional digital images.

Website INTEGRATION

More than 15 years with the maintenance, creation and administration of Web assets using (D/x)HTML,CSS 2 - 3 (with notions of less & sass) and JavaScript (jQuery).

5 experience with assisting web development in PHP (LAMP), PHP/AJAX and have had experiences with ASP, VBS, Perl Script programming for dymic web support.

Junior programmer in PHP and OOP with 4 years of proven experiences in the development of web application using LAMP (Linux, Apache Red Hat, MySQL 4-5.0 et PHP 4.2 -5).

Good working understanding of MySQL database creation, editing and maintenance.

Intermediate front-end developer capable of working with running objects and editing CMS assets for Joomla and Word Press frameworks.

Experienced with Subversion VCS and a working knowledge of Git dVCS as well as experiences using Agile development through the use of Bit Bucket and Altlassian JIRA and Confluence cloud based team applications

Web promotion

More than 8 years setting and maintaininig SEO standards for client website and creation of paralelle web promotional assest the implementation editing and vetting of meta tag data, Open Graph protocal the maintenamce of XML maps in consort targetted search marketing with Google, Bing, and Yahoo products.

Working undertanding of facebook and other social media marketing and optimisation : Vimeo, Twitter, Instagram, MySpace, SoundCloud, etc.

More than 5 years experience site traffic analysis for small and large ecomerce and reference sites.

Project Coordination

I have more tha 5 years proven project coordniation experience for small to large scalable web projects for small and large business solutions as well as for affiliated partnerships and I have managed small work teams and maintained a freelance contracts.

I am an excellent team worker able to assess his competences as well as those of his team.

Effective collaborator in project and budget planning.

Able communicator capable of producing prompt and concise project reports.

Extensive experience in the coordination and submission of pre-press materials to clients and service bureaus with strong troubleshooting skills

In charge of media archiving and resource coordination within small and large enterprises including the coordination and selection outsourced materials.

Able to simultaneously balance the planning and execution of several marketing projects for web and print materials and enthusiastic supporter of all production tasks (assembling press kits, mail outs, etc.)

I am quickly adopoting an Agile toolkit and Scrum project management methodologies adopted form my recent experiences and as a freelance designer and integrator.

2012-2014 Voyages en Direct Montréal QC (www.voyagesendirect.com.)

Support and maintainance for up to 60 concurrent sites for the affiliated clients and assistance with the integration and updating front end features for in-house and third party modules and templates.

Maintenance of image and software licences for VED central and their affiliates

Management and maintenance of external hosting assets such as email accounts, disk quotas, database allocation, hosting extensions as well as performing additional duties listed below for the following client sites:

1996-1997 Nuits des Beaux-Arts. Université Concordia, Montréal, QC.

Studies

1996-2015

14 years of autodidactic learning in graphic design, web integration, hosting administration and programming combining work practice, online and traditional tutorials and seminars and exchange of peer knowlege.

1991-1996

Concordia University : Bachelors of Fine Arts and Art History with a minor in theatre

List of techniques and acquired knowledge

Protocoles, standards

I have utilized all the following protocols and languages over the course of my career :